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CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM COMES TO CHESAPEAKE

The Chesapeake Community Services Board has received a grant to implement the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT).  The grant will be used to help prevent incidents like the April 2009 shooting on Battlefield Boulevard of a mentally ill woman by Chesapeake police officers.  These types of incidences happen all too often to the mentally ill in this country.  We have had 3 such incidences in the Tidewater area this year.  CIT with the training it provides, will teach law enforcement people how to deal with situations involving the mentally ill.  The training lasts approximately 1 week and the officer comes away with a new understanding of the mentally ill.  They are taught procedures to de-escalate a situation before it becomes a tragedy.

Congratulations to the Chesapeake Community Services Board for all that they have done to bring CIT to our citizens.

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